Chapter 7 On "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is the most widely accepted and most mentioned of Jin Yong's works.Since "Shooting the Condors", no one doubts the status of Jin Yong's novel master.This is a novel with a complete and seamless structure, which is a symbol of Jin Yong's maturity. "Shooting the Condors" is the most important novel among Jin Yong's works, and there is absolutely no doubt about it. In "Shooting the Condors", the combination of historical figures and fictional characters has a new development.Fictional characters no longer play small roles, but can compete with historical figures.Guo Jing lived with Genghis Khan since he was a child, and later led the Mongolian army to march west.

From then on, Jin Yong's handling of creative characters became more arbitrary, and sometimes even surpassed historical figures. Such an arrangement is enough to prove that Jin Yong has a deeper research and understanding of the historical background of his novels. Readers should be able to find that in the combination of history and creation, it is extremely harmonious and seamless. Some people think that Jin Yong's way of writing may mislead readers to misunderstand history.This statement, of course, is not worth laughing at, nor is it worth refuting.People who hold this kind of thinking are afraid that they will put up a safety net under a tall building to prevent someone from jumping off the building.

The most successful part of "Shooting the Condors" is in the creation of characters. The story of "Shooting the Condors" can even be said to be straightforward, and all the wonderful parts come from the created characters who are vivid and jump in front of readers all the time.Jin Yong's success in writing characters began with "Shooting the Condors", and became more mature after "Shooting the Condors". "Shooting the Condors" is a relatively shallow work among Jin Yong's works. It is the most widely circulated and most easily accepted by readers, which is also due to this point.

"Shooting the Condor" has the shadow of traditional martial arts novels, but it has become a style of writing that countless martial arts novels emulate. "Shooting the Condor" can be said to be a model of martial arts novels, and occupies an important position in the history of martial arts novels. In "Shooting the Condors", Jin Yong is still emphasizing the power of the masses, emphasizing the collective, and focusing on individual strength. This concept is concentrated on the plot of the meeting in Junshan, where Guo Jing and Huang Rong are forced to face failure by the gang of beggars.However, in the repeated emphasis of this concept, there are actually signs of collapse, and it is really impossible to persist.The strength of the individual is at the forefront, and Jin Yong, with a feeling of helplessness, went on to write about Guo and Huang, who defeated a large number of people from the beggar gang.Heroes, after all, are individual and independent.It is very different from the blindness and impulsiveness of the masses.

The signs of the collapse of this group concept began in "Shooting the Condor Heroes", and in "The Legend of Condor Heroes", Yang Guo killed the Mongolian emperor among millions of troops, and a complete transformation has been completed.Since then, Jin Yong's novels have always been dominated by individual concepts. The concept of love, Jin Yong still insisted on the correct love between a man and a woman until "Shooting the Condor". Will elaborate.Therefore, in "Shooting the Condors", although Guo Jing had a marriage contract with the Mongolian princess, after meeting Huang Rong, he had to choose one of the two. Of course, the emotional setbacks also became the rich plot of the story.

"Shooting the Condors" is lively, with moving plot twists and turns, and vivid and rich characters. It is a successful work that appeals to both refined and popular tastes. "Shooting the Condors" ranks seventh among Jin Yong's works.